The reason I ask that question... when Ritz declared bankruptcy earlier this year and made the decision to reduce the number of stores down to approx 400, there was a comment from the various legitimate business news websites (Reuters, NYT, Twice etc) that the actions of Ritz b&m would not affect the .com division.

Visiting Ritzcamera.com

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Ritz Interactive and its e-commerce websites, (which include RitzCamera. com .....) is a separate company from Ritz Camera Centers. (which includes Ritz Camera Centers, Wolf Camera, Kits Camera and others).

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Currently the news releases at Reuters speaks of the stores but makes no mention of the .com entity, which raises this question about the .com entity.

Having raised this question, when CC was closed this spring there were multiple entities under the CC name and each of the USA entities was affected by the CC bankruptcy.

"The company, which had 800 stores when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year, said it no longer had enough funds to purchase fall inventory and continue operations, forcing it to sell the remaining locations.

The company said it had "determined for a number of reasons that a plan to exit bankruptcy as a stand-alone going concern business is not a likely option," according to documents filed Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware."

In that it appears to be a cash problem, this might be a way to fund the .com operation, and the .com operation can be geographically concentrated as opposed to B&M locations.